New Generations
Educational Mission:
Every Rotarian is an example to our youth. Rotarians must have a part in developing the youth of today to be leaders of tomorrow.
Rick Thiernau - Chair
Committee Members:
- Why sponsor a youth organization?
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- Tell me what are the prevailing sentiments that occupy the minds of your young people, and I will tell you what is to be the character of our next generation. Edmund Burke, English Statesman.
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- Earlyact Club:
- A service club for elementary students to teach them the four-way test and how to live their lives by the four-way test. Approximately twenty-five students in the Millinium School and Glenwood School for Boys & Girls will complete age appropriate international, community and local service projects.
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- Interact Club: See our Photo page for recent activities.
- A service club for high school students to provide opportunity for young people to work together in a world of fellowship dedicated to service and international understanding. The goals of the program are noteworthy: to recognize and develop constructive leadership and personal integrity; to encourage and practice thoughtfulness of and helpfulness to others; to create an awareness of the importance of home and family; to build respect for the rights of others, based on recognition of the worth of each individual; to emphasize acceptance of individual responsibility as the basis of personal success, community improvement, and group achievement.
- Third Grade Dictionary Project:
- Prepare for and deliver cases of dictionaries to the following schools—Churchill, Flossmoor Hills, Heather Hill, Hickorybend, Infant Jesus of Prague, Longwood, Serena Hills, St. Joseph, & Western Ave
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- RYLA:
- Rotary Youth Leadership Activities— High school students from Hillcrest and Homewood-Flossmoor High School and Glenwood School for Boys & Girls participate in a leadership weekend activity.
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- Be part of the Homewood Rotary Educational Mission:
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- Ask not what Homewood Rotary can do for you, rather ask what you can do to help the Homewood Rotary organization achieve it’s mission...
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- You can support the Homewood Rotary Organization in achieving its mission by participating in one of the following objectives?
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- Co-Leading an Early Act Club—Teach them the four-way test. Attend one meeting a month for the school year. Learn about the club activities and report them to our organization.
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- Co-Sponsoring the Interact Club of Hillcrest High School—Assist them in forming a new club. Attend one meeting a month.
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- Participate in the third grade and Hillcrest High School dictionary project distribution.
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